Friday, September 14, 2012

What can be more exciting or romantic than a forgotten castle? Author Jamie Carie takes readers through the doors and into the halls of romance and mystery in this new series.

The Forgotten Castles
Series is a three book series that follows amateur sleuth, Lady
Alexandria Featherstone, as she travels to Ireland (book one – The
Guardian Duke), Iceland (book two – The Forgiven Duke), and Italy (book
three – A Duke’s Promise) in search of her missing parents.

Full of
adventure, romance, and mystery, the three books sweep readers across
Europe in pursuit of a famed invention. Along the way, Alexandria
develops feelings for her guardian – the brooding Duke of St. Easton,
who has recently suffered a physical blow that is changing his life.
Gabriel thinks of his new charge as an unwanted complication in a time
when his life is coming apart at the seams but soon comes to cherish her
letters and admire her faith. Their journey will be fraught with danger
as they come ever closer to God’s plan for their lives.

Monday, September 10, 2012

Brigadier General Jonathan Carleton rejoins General George
Washington’s army to find the patriot cause on the verge of extinction. In a
daring gamble the American force crosses the Delaware on Christmas night 1776,
to defeat outposts at Trenton and Princeton before vanishing into the mountain
bastions around Morristown.

Drawn ever deeper into the intrigues that swirl around
British General William Howe, Elizabeth Howard and her aunt, Tess, move to
Philadelphia in summer 1777 to gather intelligence while waiting for the
British attack. Ambushed and almost captured as the Americans dig in at
Brandywine Creek, Carleton is transferred to General Horatio Gates’s army in
the upper Hudson Valley where British General John Burgoyne closes in on
Saratoga. With decisive battles looming, Elizabeth and Carleton face a crucible
of war that tests their mettle, faith, and love to the very limits.

An
award-winning author and editor, J. M. Hochstetler is the daughter of Mennonite
farmers, a graduate of Indiana University, a professional editor, and a
lifelong student of history. She is the author of Daughter of Liberty, Native Son, Wind of the Spirit, and Crucible of War, books 1 through 4 of
the American Patriot Series, the only comprehensive historical fiction series
on the American Revolution. Books 5 through 7 are forthcoming. Her contemporary
novel One Holy Night was the Christian Small Publishers 2009 Book of the
Year and finalist for the American Christian Fiction Writers 2009 Carol Award.

Saturday, September 1, 2012

On a bitter December day in 1785, Silas Ballantyne arrives at the door
of master blacksmith Liege Lee in York, Pennsylvania. Just months from
becoming a master blacksmith himself, Silas is determined to finish his
apprenticeship and move west. But Liege soon discovers that Silas is a
prodigious worker and craftsman and endeavors to keep him in York. Silas
becomes interested in both of Liege's daughters, the gentle and
faith-filled Eden and the clever and high-spirited Elspeth. When he
chooses one, will the other's jealousy destroy their love?

In
this sweeping family saga set in western Pennsylvania, one man's choices
in love and work, in friends and enemies, set the stage for generations
to come. Love's Reckoning is the first entry in The Ballantyne
Legacy, a rich, multi-layered historical quartet from talented writer
Laura Frantz, beginning in the late 1700s and following the Ballantyne
family through the end of the Civil War.